Secret Courts and Secret Fines

In a free society operating within the rule of law, individuals and companies are not subject to secret coercion.  Illegal challenges and coercion can be brought to law enforcement and adjudicated in the courts.  In the United States of 2014, companies are threatened with secret fines of $250,000 per day and economic extinction unless they allow the government to secretly spy on all citizens.  The illegal spying began with President Bush and accelerated with President Obama.


U.S. threatened Yahoo with huge fine over surveillance

U.S. authorities threatened to fine Yahoo $250,000 a day if it failed to comply with a secret surveillance program requiring it to hand over user data in the name of national security, court documents showed Thursday.

The documents, made public in a rare unsealing by a secretive court panel, "underscore how we had to fight every step of the way to challenge the US government's surveillance efforts," Yahoo general counsel Ron Bell said in a blog post that will again raise privacy concerns.